Wheelchair? Hearing Aids? Yes. ‘Disabled’? No Way.

In her house in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Barbara Meade said, “there are walkers and wheelchairs and oxygen and cannulas all over the place.” Barbara, 82, has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, so a portable oxygen tank accompanies her everywhere. Spinal stenosis limits her mobility, necessitating the walkers and wheelchairs and considerable help from her husband, Dennis, who…

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Where Americans Saw Information About Tax and Budget Legislation on Social Media, and False Measles Narratives Target Immigrants — The Monitor

This volume shares findings from KFF’s latest poll on how the public encountered information about the recently passed tax and budget legislation; misleading narratives blaming undocumented immigrants for the current measles outbreak; misrepresentations of vaccine safety systems; claims that climate change isn’t real following deadly Texas flooding; and confusion around statins for preventing heart disease.

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Medication Adherence and Deprescribing Programs Aren’t Enough for Today’s Polypharmacy Patients

By moving beyond adherence and drug interactions to a holistic, outcomes-driven approach, health systems and providers can redefine how medication is used — not as a rigid protocol but as a dynamic, patient-centered tool for achieving better health. The post Medication Adherence and Deprescribing Programs Aren’t Enough for Today’s Polypharmacy Patients appeared first on MedCity…

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$50B Rural Health ‘Slush Fund’ Faces Questions, Skepticism

https://kffhealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/mp_20250718_seg_MMR_-_Rural_Health_64.mp3 The Rural Health Transformation Program calls for federal regulators to hand states $10 billion a year for five years starting in fiscal year 2026. But the “devil’s in the details in terms of implementing,” said Sarah Hohman, director of government affairs at the National Association of Rural Health Clinics. “An investment of this amount…

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